You’ll find Stollen on most German tables during the Christmas Season. People enjoy it at an Advent Coffee, or as a special part of the Christmas Breakfast. The flavorful bread, studded with fruit, is made with enriched dough. Because it’s sweet, but not too sweet, you can enjoy it just as it comes. The most famous Stollen comes from Dresden,…
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Traditional German Advent Wreath – Count the Sundays before Christmas
The Advent Calendar isn’t the only way to mark the time before Christmas; in our home, we always had a Traditional German Advent Wreath. My mother would bring it out on the first Sunday of Advent, and the Holiday Season would officially begin in our home. I couldn’t understand why other (non-German) houses I visited didn’t have them. But then,…
Traditional German Advent Calendars- Count the Days to Christmas!
Having a traditional German Advent calendar to count down the days to Christmas was as normal to me as breathing or putting on house shoes; it is just something we had in our home. Most years, they were simple, a double-thick cardboard sheet printed with Christmas scenes and pretty pictures behind each door. In later years, we had German chocolate Advent…